Moving & Arranging Objects

Everything on the table is an object, and they all share a common set of moves: select, drag, rotate, flip, lock. Learn these once and they work on a card, a die, a board, or a whole handful at once. (For what individual piece types do, see Cards & Decks, Bags, Token Stacks, and the other piece guides.)

Getting Pieces Onto the Table

Nothing appears automatically when a room opens; you place pieces as you need them. There are three ways:

• Your project's components are in the left sidebar, grouped by type and deck. Click one, choose a quantity, and spawn it. This is how you set up your own game.
• Generic pieces (plain dice, tokens, bags, counters, blank decks) are in the sidebar too, no project required. They're perfect for trying a mechanic before you've built art.
• Quick spawns: right-click an empty spot on the table (host only) for an instant D6, D20, coin, cube, token, bag, or counter.

Selecting & Moving

Click an object to select it; a border in your player color shows it's yours to control. Drag it anywhere, and everyone else sees a live "ghost" follow your move so the table never feels frozen. Click empty space or press Esc to deselect.

To act on several pieces at once, multi-select: Ctrl+Click to add pieces one by one, or drag a box across empty table to grab everything inside (hold Ctrl while dragging to add to the current selection). Drag any selected piece and the whole group moves together.

Rotating & Flipping

• Rotate with Q (counter-clockwise) and E (clockwise), by your configured step (default 90°). Shift+Q and Shift+E rotate by half that step.
• Flip a card, token, or board with F or a double-click, to show its other face.

You can set your rotation step in Player Options (see the Realtime Playtest overview).

Layering

When pieces overlap, control which sits on top from the right-click Layering menu: Send to Back, Back 1, Forward 1, Send to Front. You can also Tuck Behind a component to slide a piece partly under it, useful for tucking earned cards under a player board.

Locking & Restrictions

These keep pieces from being moved or used in ways you don't want. Most are on the right-click Restrictions menu:

• Lock (L): pin a piece in place so it can't be dragged. Press L again, or use the menu, to unlock.
• Prevent Stacking / Bagging / Hand: stop a piece from merging into stacks, going into bags, or being sent to a hand.
• Prevent Snap to Point / Grid: stop a piece from snapping to anchors or the grid.
• Disable Snap Follow (host): keep a snapped piece from moving when its parent rotates or scales.

The Core Shortcuts

These act on whatever is under your cursor or selected. A double-click always triggers a piece's primary action.

The complete list, including host-only actions like delete and scale, is in the Keyboard Shortcuts reference.

Related: Cards & Decks · Camera, Navigation & Mobile · Keyboard Shortcuts